Punters might have been kept in suspense for a moment to see if Ghalib or Lim’s Craft won the $70,000 Class 3 race (1400m) on Saturday, but regardless of who won, trainer Steven Burridge was going to be in the winner’s circle.
After the Alwin Tan-trained Aniki sprinted past debutant Stop The Water to open his account in the $20,000 Open Maiden race (1100m) on Saturday, jockey Vlad Duric gave credit to trainer Steven Burridge for the improvement second-up.
Smart debut winner Last Supper will return to the races in the $50,000 Class 4 race (1200m) this Saturday and trainer James Peters had no qualms about a three-month wait for his second start.
Connections have readily accepted the invitation to run Singapore’s top galloper Lim’s Kosciuszko in the Longines Hong Kong International Races for the second year in a row, but he will instead be taking on the best milers in the world in the HK$32 million (S$5.5 million) Group 1 Longines Hong Kong Mile (1600m) at Sha Tin racecourse on 10 December this year.
